Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Bearded Man with a Velvet Cap 1645 Oil on wood, 60.3 x 52.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Flinck studied as a pupil in Rembrandt’s studio and, according to one early biographer, had so internalized his…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 64.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In this enigmatic painting, an unidentified man in modern bourgeois attire sits in a chair among cuts of meat. A…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Souvenirs (Memories) 1840 Hand-coloured lithograph and gum arabic on buff paper, 26.8 × 81 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) Auguste Rodin 1884–1885 Bronze, 40 x 25 x 28 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine See also: • Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Saint Bartholomew 1657 Oil on canvas, 122.7 x 99.7 cm Timken Museum of Art, San Diego
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) The Potato Eaters 1885 Lithograph on paper, 26.5 x 32.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The series on the Potato Eaters, executed in Nuenen in spring 1885, is one of the most significant of Vincent van Gogh’s first…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Autoritratto nudo (Nude self-portrait) 1945 Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 50 cm Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Les Joueurs d’échecs (The Chess players) c.1863–1867 Oil on wood on canvas, 48 x 55.5 cm Petit Palais, Paris
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Segretario (Secretary) 16th century Oil on canvas, 76 x 66 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus of Rotterdam c.1532 Oil on linden panel, 17.6 x 14 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hans Holbein the Younger was one of the most celebrated portraitists of the sixteenth century. At an…